diff --git a/lua/core/default_config.lua b/lua/core/default_config.lua
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ee9467..0000000
--- a/lua/core/default_config.lua
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,121 +0,0 @@
-local M = {}
-
-M.options = {
-  nvchad_branch = "v3.0",
-}
-
-M.ui = {
-  ------------------------------- base46 -------------------------------------
-  -- hl = highlights
-  hl_add = {},
-  hl_override = {},
-  changed_themes = {},
-  theme_toggle = { "onedark", "one_light" },
-  theme = "onedark", -- default theme
-  transparency = false,
-
-  -- cmp themeing
-  cmp = {
-    icons = true,
-    lspkind_text = true,
-    style = "default", -- default/flat_light/flat_dark/atom/atom_colored
-  },
-
-  telescope = { style = "borderless" }, -- borderless / bordered
-
-  ------------------------------- nvchad_ui modules -----------------------------
-  statusline = {
-    theme = "default", -- default/vscode/vscode_colored/minimal
-    -- default/round/block/arrow separators work only for default statusline theme
-    -- round and block will work for minimal theme only
-    separator_style = "default",
-    overriden_modules = nil,
-  },
-
-  -- lazyload it when there are 1+ buffers
-  tabufline = {
-    show_numbers = false,
-    enabled = true,
-    lazyload = true,
-    overriden_modules = nil,
-  },
-
-  -- nvdash (dashboard)
-  nvdash = {
-    load_on_startup = false,
-
-    header = {
-      "           ▄ ▄                   ",
-      "       ▄   ▄▄▄     ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄     ",
-      "       █ ▄ █▄█ ▄▄▄ █ █▄█ █ █     ",
-      "    ▄▄ █▄█▄▄▄█ █▄█▄█▄▄█▄▄█ █     ",
-      "  ▄ █▄▄█ ▄ ▄▄ ▄█ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄  ",
-      "  █▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ █ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ █ ▄",
-      "▄ █ █▄█ █▄█ █ █ █▄█ █ █▄█ ▄▄▄ █ █",
-      "█▄█ ▄ █▄▄█▄▄█ █ ▄▄█ █ ▄ █ █▄█▄█ █",
-      "    █▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█ █▄█▄▄▄█    ",
-    },
-
-    buttons = {
-      { "  Find File", "Spc f f", "Telescope find_files" },
-      { "󰈚  Recent Files", "Spc f o", "Telescope oldfiles" },
-      { "󰈭  Find Word", "Spc f w", "Telescope live_grep" },
-      { "  Bookmarks", "Spc m a", "Telescope marks" },
-      { "  Themes", "Spc t h", "Telescope themes" },
-      { "  Mappings", "Spc c h", "NvCheatsheet" },
-    },
-  },
-
-  cheatsheet = { theme = "grid" }, -- simple/grid
-
-  lsp = {
-    signature = true,
-    semantic_tokens = false,
-  },
-
-  term = {
-    hl = "Normal:term,WinSeparator:WinSeparator",
-    sizes = { sp = 0.3, vsp = 0.2 },
-    float = {
-      relative = "editor",
-      row = 0.3,
-      col = 0.25,
-      width = 0.5,
-      height = 0.4,
-      border = "single",
-    },
-    behavior = {
-      auto_insert = true,
-    },
-  },
-}
-
-M.plugins = "" -- path i.e "custom.plugins", so make custom/plugins.lua file
-
-M.lazy_nvim = require "plugins.configs.lazy_nvim" -- config for lazy.nvim startup options
-
-M.mappings = require "core.mappings"
-
-M.base46 = {
-  integrations = {
-    "blankline",
-    "cmp",
-    "defaults",
-    "devicons",
-    "git",
-    "lsp",
-    "mason",
-    "nvchad_updater",
-    "nvcheatsheet",
-    "nvdash",
-    "nvimtree",
-    "statusline",
-    "syntax",
-    "treesitter",
-    "tbline",
-    "telescope",
-    "whichkey",
-  },
-}
-
-return M
diff --git a/lua/core/mappings.lua b/lua/core/mappings.lua
index 228c2d5..d955e30 100644
--- a/lua/core/mappings.lua
+++ b/lua/core/mappings.lua
@@ -149,4 +149,4 @@ if vim.g.blankline_maps then
   end, { desc = "Jump to current context | blankline" })
 end
 
-require "custom.mappings"
+pcall(require, "custom.mappings")
diff --git a/lua/core/utils.lua b/lua/core/utils.lua
deleted file mode 100644
index 34213a4..0000000
--- a/lua/core/utils.lua
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-local M = {}
-
-M.load_config = function()
-  local config = require "core.default_config"
-  local chadrc_path = vim.api.nvim_get_runtime_file("lua/custom/chadrc.lua", false)[1]
-
-  if chadrc_path then
-    config = vim.tbl_deep_extend("force", config,  dofile(chadrc_path))
-  end
-
-  return config
-end
-
-return M
diff --git a/lua/nvconfig.lua b/lua/nvconfig.lua
index df0d4a4..fe35faf 100644
--- a/lua/nvconfig.lua
+++ b/lua/nvconfig.lua
@@ -1,2 +1,127 @@
--- check default config at core/default_config.lua
-return require("core.utils").load_config()
+local M = {}
+
+M.options = {
+  nvchad_branch = "v3.0",
+}
+
+M.ui = {
+  ------------------------------- base46 -------------------------------------
+  -- hl = highlights
+  hl_add = {},
+  hl_override = {},
+  changed_themes = {},
+  theme_toggle = { "onedark", "one_light" },
+  theme = "onedark", -- default theme
+  transparency = false,
+
+  -- cmp themeing
+  cmp = {
+    icons = true,
+    lspkind_text = true,
+    style = "default", -- default/flat_light/flat_dark/atom/atom_colored
+  },
+
+  telescope = { style = "borderless" }, -- borderless / bordered
+
+  ------------------------------- nvchad_ui modules -----------------------------
+  statusline = {
+    theme = "default", -- default/vscode/vscode_colored/minimal
+    -- default/round/block/arrow separators work only for default statusline theme
+    -- round and block will work for minimal theme only
+    separator_style = "default",
+    overriden_modules = nil,
+  },
+
+  -- lazyload it when there are 1+ buffers
+  tabufline = {
+    show_numbers = false,
+    enabled = true,
+    lazyload = true,
+    overriden_modules = nil,
+  },
+
+  -- nvdash (dashboard)
+  nvdash = {
+    load_on_startup = false,
+
+    header = {
+      "           ▄ ▄                   ",
+      "       ▄   ▄▄▄     ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄     ",
+      "       █ ▄ █▄█ ▄▄▄ █ █▄█ █ █     ",
+      "    ▄▄ █▄█▄▄▄█ █▄█▄█▄▄█▄▄█ █     ",
+      "  ▄ █▄▄█ ▄ ▄▄ ▄█ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄  ",
+      "  █▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ █ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ █ ▄",
+      "▄ █ █▄█ █▄█ █ █ █▄█ █ █▄█ ▄▄▄ █ █",
+      "█▄█ ▄ █▄▄█▄▄█ █ ▄▄█ █ ▄ █ █▄█▄█ █",
+      "    █▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█ █▄█▄▄▄█    ",
+    },
+
+    buttons = {
+      { "  Find File", "Spc f f", "Telescope find_files" },
+      { "󰈚  Recent Files", "Spc f o", "Telescope oldfiles" },
+      { "󰈭  Find Word", "Spc f w", "Telescope live_grep" },
+      { "  Bookmarks", "Spc m a", "Telescope marks" },
+      { "  Themes", "Spc t h", "Telescope themes" },
+      { "  Mappings", "Spc c h", "NvCheatsheet" },
+    },
+  },
+
+  cheatsheet = { theme = "grid" }, -- simple/grid
+
+  lsp = {
+    signature = true,
+    semantic_tokens = false,
+  },
+
+  term = {
+    hl = "Normal:term,WinSeparator:WinSeparator",
+    sizes = { sp = 0.3, vsp = 0.2 },
+    float = {
+      relative = "editor",
+      row = 0.3,
+      col = 0.25,
+      width = 0.5,
+      height = 0.4,
+      border = "single",
+    },
+    behavior = {
+      auto_insert = true,
+    },
+  },
+}
+
+M.plugins = "" -- path i.e "custom.plugins", so make custom/plugins.lua file
+
+M.lazy_nvim = require "plugins.configs.lazy_nvim" -- config for lazy.nvim startup options
+
+M.mappings = require "core.mappings"
+
+M.base46 = {
+  integrations = {
+    "blankline",
+    "cmp",
+    "defaults",
+    "devicons",
+    "git",
+    "lsp",
+    "mason",
+    "nvchad_updater",
+    "nvcheatsheet",
+    "nvdash",
+    "nvimtree",
+    "statusline",
+    "syntax",
+    "treesitter",
+    "tbline",
+    "telescope",
+    "whichkey",
+  },
+}
+
+local chadrc_exists, chadrc = pcall(require, "custom.chadrc")
+
+if chadrc_exists then
+  M = vim.tbl_deep_extend("force", M, chadrc)
+end
+
+return M